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Paleoart Sketching at the Royal Tyrell Museum
I promise I’ll get better photos eventually, but here’s a quick dump from my trip to drumheller! Visited the museum for some amount of hours over two days so I could sketch the mounts, all of these are done on watercolour paper so hopefully when I next post about them, they’ll be painted up and pretty :)
What museum do you guys recommend to go to next? (At least, in North America)
Hopefully going back for visit number 6 next year! (I’m so greedy, I need to go back again and again)
Young Gorgosaurus libratus, death pose.
more under cut
Dromaeosaurus albertensis I believe, I gave it some strange butt plumage there but oh well
Black beauty (Tyrannosaurus rex) had a nice little chat with a photographer while drawing this one, we were both struggling to perform our arts with the massive crowd ;-; luckily day two was a lot less busy, I went first thing in the morning rather then midday.
Ornithomimus brevitertius, as to which the species Google refused to elaborate whether it’s synonymous with a different dinosaur species or genus so to this day I am unsure if it is a valid radon :,D regardless, this was probably my favourite sketch, working on painting it rn
I don’t remember the tag on this one, gonna guess it was a type of corythosaurus?
I’ll do some extra photo dumping from the museum later :)
I want to be a geo witch. A paleo-necromancer.
I want to listen to the rocks on the side of the road and hear about drama from 3.2 Billion years ago. I want to wear a hat with a ridiculously wide brim. I want to show the ghost of Jurassic ginkgos and Permian Cycads how tall and proud their ancestors are. I want to raise the old ones and have a consensual battle with my Kollikodon against someone else's up little critcher. I want to give a velociraptor a pat on my lap and tell them how wonderful they are with little kisses. It's bullshit and unfair.
[introduction]
hello, and welcome to my blog!
I am firestorm_shiba, you can also call me Fig (not my real name, but it’s time I grab myself a cool internet nickname…) or G :)
decided I should make a little(ish) introduction post, so here we go!
[quick summary of my blog]
I post a lot of dinosaurs + paleoart, but in the future I hope to include some more of my hobbies, interests and just little life things along the way! That may include lots of fantasy stuff, such as D&D, character design, and plenty of dragons, and I’ll likely start posting some of my fandom-related art stuff such as fanart of the Legend of Zelda, HotD/GoT, Wings of Fire, and the Witcher.
Maybe some little craft posts, and little random gremlin-y things
page tagging quick search:
my post = posts by me. Not much else to say. If I make a long bit of writing or add some art to a reblog, it may end up with this tag as well.
my art = again, not much else to say. Use this tag to quickly filter out reblogs and my non-art related posts from my blog :)
Cretaceous Alberta = art pieces, info and announcements regarding my Colours of the Lost World: Reconstructing Cretaceous Alberta project.
here's a bit about me + my page
Name: firestorm_shiba, Fig, or G, whatever you like
I am a Canadian artist, currently in high school but planning to pursue a degree in paleontology!
some of my interests are: Paleontology, fantasy, dragons & fictional creatures, bugs & insects, nature and all her random crunchy stuff, art, science, books, legend of zelda, and so on.
some of my hobbies: drawing of course, video games, dancing, insect pinning, writing & reading
have a question, art request or anything of the sort? Let me know in my comments, my asks, or shoot me a message! I love to hear from you guys :)
I also have a ko-fi shop (I'm currently unable to receive payments through there so if you would like to buy a sticker or product, please let me know and I can work out PayPal instead. You can still buy stuff off my ko-fi and I will still send it to you, but I won't be able to receive the payments from there for a bit (stripe and TD.... please just work with me I want the money I worked hard for ;-;)
Links and more under cut!
More fun stuff coming soon, hopefully!
alright you guys, the first sketch dump from the museum is here >:D
hehehe going to the Royal Tyrell Museum again in August, and I am boiling over with an idea
So I've been to the Royal Tyrell 3 times already before this, it is such an amazing museum :,) but this time I want to work on some paleoart if I can
So the plan is to just go around and reconstruct the dinosaurs as they are mounted in the museum, and i think that will be really fun as I usually go off of 2D skeletal drawings as a reference for accuracy, so this’ll be like drawing my dinosaur models… just, skinned and de-meat-ifyed (?)
If anyone a specific Canadian dinosaur or maybe Montana-area ones as well (I think Tyrell has a few) let me know and I can keep an eye out for them :) and hopefully sneak in a little doodle!
*cronch*
Paleoart Sketching at the Royal Tyrell Museum
I promise I’ll get better photos eventually, but here’s a quick dump from my trip to drumheller! Visited the museum for some amount of hours over two days so I could sketch the mounts, all of these are done on watercolour paper so hopefully when I next post about them, they’ll be painted up and pretty :)
What museum do you guys recommend to go to next? (At least, in North America)
Hopefully going back for visit number 6 next year! (I’m so greedy, I need to go back again and again)
Young Gorgosaurus libratus, death pose.
more under cut
Dromaeosaurus albertensis I believe, I gave it some strange butt plumage there but oh well
Black beauty (Tyrannosaurus rex) had a nice little chat with a photographer while drawing this one, we were both struggling to perform our arts with the massive crowd ;-; luckily day two was a lot less busy, I went first thing in the morning rather then midday.
Ornithomimus brevitertius, as to which the species Google refused to elaborate whether it’s synonymous with a different dinosaur species or genus so to this day I am unsure if it is a valid radon :,D regardless, this was probably my favourite sketch, working on painting it rn
I don’t remember the tag on this one, gonna guess it was a type of corythosaurus?
I’ll do some extra photo dumping from the museum later :)
Courtship in the sky
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Process shots of my latest acrylic painting, as promised!
The next acrylic addition to my Cretaceous Alberta series is already under way (a pair of baby styracosaurus), but there will definitely be a ton of watercolours along the way :)
+ heading out to Drumheller to visit the Royal Tyrell Museum in a day for the 4th time (listen, it's the best museum ok?) and I'll be spending ~9 hrs there this time to draw the mounts. That'll def add a lot to my Cretaceous Alberta collection. Let me know if there's a specific species you'd like me to look out for to draw there :D
Completely forgot to post this, but here's the final painting of Dromaeosaurus I finished back in June from my project "Colours of the Lost World: Reconstructing Cretaceous Alberta".
ooor you can just call it my Cretaceous Alberta project. I'm basically just making a pile of random art of Alberta (canada) 's paleofauna and flora
I'll probably post up my process pretty soon, so keep an eye out for that if you're interested :)
this was also a project I started within last years art class, so I'll post the rest of the year-end art show display pieces I made for this project :) as I live so close and Alberta's dinosaurs are one of my most common subjects, I'll definitely be continuing this series. let me know what you'd like to see next, either in the comments or my asks!
ALRIGHT EVERYONE ITS HITLIST TIME
we head out for the city thurs, and I'll be at the museum sat & sun I think? So here's some of my "targets" to draw:
-Black beauty (T. rex) and the Dinosaur Hall Tyrannosaurus
-Borealopelta
-Oryctodromeus (if they have one, this was a request, I'll try my best to look for it :)
-The allo and campto in the picture
-Any ornithomimid
-Any ceratopsian
Should I try drawing one of the mammals there? I've never actually tried reconstructing one before (booooo me)
If anyone wants pings for when I post the art from the mounts, let me know in the comments :D
HYPEE HYPE I LOVE DRUMHELLER
hehehe going to the Royal Tyrell Museum again in August, and I am boiling over with an idea
So I've been to the Royal Tyrell 3 times already before this, it is such an amazing museum :,) but this time I want to work on some paleoart if I can
So the plan is to just go around and reconstruct the dinosaurs as they are mounted in the museum, and i think that will be really fun as I usually go off of 2D skeletal drawings as a reference for accuracy, so this’ll be like drawing my dinosaur models… just, skinned and de-meat-ifyed (?)
If anyone a specific Canadian dinosaur or maybe Montana-area ones as well (I think Tyrell has a few) let me know and I can keep an eye out for them :) and hopefully sneak in a little doodle!
*cronch*
Primal and Poki give off the most comforting vibes, hope you don't mind a lil fanart of them ;__; Wholesome central. Avid fan.
OF COURSE I DONT MIND I WELCOME IT WITH OPEN ARMS <333
I tried so hard to scrounge through your blog for an oc so I could return the favour, I'm sorry that I didn't make it ;-;
BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH, THIS IS ADORABLE AHAIANMSOSJSMSO I NEED TO RETURN THE FAVOUR SOMEHOW
your art is just *chefs kiss*
AGHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!!! Poki really is just a big flea....
time for primal to snatch that shiny rock over there
BUT AUGH SERIOUSLY THIS IS BEAUTIFUL?.? AND ADORABLE
I love that you continued the rock saga from my attack
@firestorm-shiba Artfight might be over but I couldn't not revenge you for your awesome pic of Primal and Perun! Here ya go!!
DAY 3 Smaller Lobolytoceras siemensi male fails to woo an uninterested much larger female. Many ammonites exhibit sexual dimorphism where often the Males (Microconch) are smaller than females (Macroconch)
The way people demonize seagulls is actually unreal. Almost all of their natural habitat has been destroyed (almost all coastal areas have been developed, destroying natural sand dune ecosystems) and they're doing their best to adapt. They're literally just trying to survive. You're in their home. The vitriol some people have for these gorgeous sea birds just because they're not shy about snatching food if you're not cautious is insane
Something that has both fascinated me and frustrated me to no end as of late are the lacrimal crests of allosauroids and other such theropods. No living theropods, to my knowledge, possess such structures. The closest analog I could find were Geese. I'm being driven up a wall trying to figure out what they would have been covered with in life. How would they have been incorporated into the face of the theropod? What display structures could they support? Air sacs, keratin, or caruncles? How pneumatized were they? Were they even for display? Most paleoartists just reconstruct them as odd stones sitting on top of the animals head, or say they were just for shading the eyes, but that can't be it, right? It feels like something is missing.
As a Paleoartist, is there anything you can say on this? Because I don't know nearly enough.
Oh boi, this is a tricky one.
Cranial ornaments come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and surface textures. For Allosaurus it seems likely that they simply had keratin sheets on top of the lacrinal crests, at least that's what the rough surface and striations suggest. However it also seems like air sacs were reaching up from the antorbital fenestra
This is how I would reconstruct that part of Allosaurus in the moment.
There could have been more though, you can see in this photo of the skull of Big Al II that this animal had large opening behind the lacrinal crests, so there could have been other structures involved.
Maybe even better to look at is this 3d scan of Arkhane, from Brussels.
This could have been related to theroregulation, more display structures or simply further weight reduction.
There is quite a bit of wiggle room when it comes to the interpretation of dinosaur facial features and there is way too much already published and at the same time too little to put it all into a single blog post.
Also not all dinosaurus follow this patters, the cranial crests of oviraptorosaurs show no good indication for keratin crests for example. So it's better to say good bye to cassowary interpretations of these animals and instead cover them in skin and/or inflatable sacs, because these hollow chambers appear to be extensions of the sinuses. (my version of Corythoraptor on the right, Citipati from Wikipedia on the left.)
And then again in other theropods like Abelisaurs we see very rugose skull tops but without the striations you see on the lacrinals of Allosaurus, potentially indicating large scales. Here my, slightly over the top, interpretation of Skorpiovenator. And even then: within abelisaurus you have stuff like Carnotaurus which shows clear signs of keratin sheets on its horns.
This all has been complicated in recent years with new methods in bone histology, because as it turns out the internal structure of a bone can tell us stuff about it's outside, that's how we for example found out that Amargosaurus neck spines were no horns and probably conected with soft tissue, or that the osteoderms of notosuchians were covered by skin like in leatherback turtles.
Going back to Allosaurus and other allosauroids. Keratin sheets, scales, air sacs, all these were probably present in these animals, but their exact distribution is still a question of debate.
Here a paper from a few years back that maps para-nasal sinuses in extent and extinct archosaurus which gives you a little idea how complex their internal anatomy could get
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ar.20794
What makes a fantasy book good to you?
Yep. I'm trying to get myself into writing a book again. Hopefully I'll actually pull through and write something fuller this time, even if I don't make it to the end.
But I've been thinking. I like to write, and I've always considered myself a good writer-- until lately, when I've actually started to notice some of my flaws. (I'll probably get into that another time, if I continue to make writing posts). And I want to improve-- so I'm asking for advice, to anyone who is a fan of fantasy books, a writer of books, or even a reader of any genre.
What makes a fantasy book enjoyable? What is something you want to see in the genre? What ruins a book? And what makes you want to pick the book up in the first place?
Sorry, that's a few extra questions than what I started with-- feel free to answer one, two, all, skip over and do none, or just comment some general advice :) I'll be happy with any kind of help or support
Dilophosaurus watercolor+fineliner
Megalosaurus bucklandii portraits
Last big artfight attack for this year. This one is more complex because I'm counting it as my monthly illustration.
For Dulcynea on artfight
18: yangchuanosaurus with a process under the cut!
Brighton craft market!
All the stuff i dont sell is gonna be on etsy in the future! (Probably august, but who knows)
Very quick kulindadromeus before i go to bed